I found this softcover at a local Salvation Army thrift store, and thought it looked interesting. It's a collection of folk tales, customs, history, and culture from Louisiana - mostly the New Orleans area and surrounds, but occasionally wandering farther afield. There are personal recollections galore, some of them expressing contrary opinions on such things as slavery - there are witnesses to brutality and cruelty, but also accounts from people who heard that such things happened but never saw them inflicted by their own masters.

Sections touch on slavery, of course, and on the grand (and mostly lost) plantations; on the cultures of the Creoles and the Cajuns; on Mardi Gras and other celebrations; on different ethnic groups - the Irish have a section of their own, to my surprise; and much more. Ghost stories, superstitions, folk remedies, plagues, the cries of street vendors, children's songs - all this and much more!

I left this book on a bench outside the bus stop at around 1:15; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2016 E-less release challenge. ***